AWS Backup vs. Infrascale

There is a cost involved with data retrieval. AWS Backup is truly that, a backup. If you need to access this data on a regular basis, there are better options out there. For long term, just in case incremental backups, AWS [Backup] checks all the boxes. Just set it up, start your backups, and rest assured your data is safe.

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The Infrascale Platform solution we have in place is certainly not cheap - I believe we are paying about $2800/month for it, though it is quite robust. We have 18TB of on-site storage available, with the same available in a secondary - remote - device for replication. They do have a wide range of products available to any size business though, so I'm sure they have cheaper offerings as well. The on-site appliance is fantastic - in that in houses your backups, but can also be utilized as an emergency piece of hardware to spin up a backup and run it in the event of your primary hardware failing. You can also traverse full backups to grab single, contained, files if you so choose. We love that feature as we must perform file recovery monthly for audit purposes.

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• Backups - it's what it does.

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• Makes consistent, verifiable onsite backups of our corporate data.
• Makes consistent, verifiable offsite backups of our corporate data
• Plays very nice with VMware, the infrastructure we currently use

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• Not so easy to use
• A little pricey
• The backup is in the cloud; make sure to keep an offline backup (the problem of all of this kind of solution)

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• More expensive than Backblaze

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Very easy to use and is as plug and play as you can get. There are configuration options for multiple schemas that best fits your organization.

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It is one of the best cloud back up data protection software and software platforms on the entire market for MSPs. There are not many other solutions that offer this level of customization and execution in the data protection and disaster recovery arena better than Infrascale. I highly recommend it for any MSP.

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Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.

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It is the cheapest way to truly protect data and has an amazing support team behind the product. You get what you pay for.

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Being an AWS service, AWS Backup integrates in a native way with other AWS services, providing an easy way to backup those services. Being able to create separate backup plans that meet specific business and regulatory compliance requirements provides us with capabilities to face auditing processes.

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Infrascale Platform is the most modern backup service/device we've utilized. EaseUs and Ghost were just software that would run within a Windows environment (at the time) and backup to a device that we kept on-site. EaseUs would fail quite often with Incremental backups - so I would spend a lot of time re-running full backups to ensure we didn't experience data loss in the event of a crash. Ghost was used when I was first hired at this district - so I didn't have much hands-on experience with it. But I know it was a bundled offering with Anti-Virus back when we utilized it ('07-'09ish).

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• Being able to offer live hot storage in the cloud for production environments allows me to get more people in the creative space with vast demand for speed.
• Great integration with all my hardware, firewall and backup software was great.
• Being able to network path my files like a native drive to my computer from the cloud made the designer not complain so much able learning new stuff.

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• Peace of mind: our entire virtual environment is backed up both onsite and offsite
• As stated, it is pricey. Since we haven't needed to do anything more than basic file restores, ROI is hard to measure. A full restore of a virtual server immediately would be priceless. So, on that note, ROI is good.

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